Premiership Player

I would take essendons/geelongs problem of not being able to win in finals over ours. It's funny seeing Geelong suporters whingeing about another poor performance in a final. Try watching a team spend 10 years at the bottom go through two coaches (not including caretakers) then needing the AFLs help to get a new coach to get us out of a massive hole left by the 2nd coach. Then finally recover for another coach to take our team to the finals and then back to bottom the very next year.

Winning 3 grand finals in 5 years and then consistently make finals after that must be much worse.

Premiership Player

The decision to not play a genuine ruck against Grundy will go down as one of the most bizarre selections(or non-selections) in finals footy! Wtf was Scott thinking?? Clearly wasn't. Seems like a think Melbourne would do. Horrible game to watch. Hoping for a rematch of last year's GF.

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The decision to not play a genuine ruck against Grundy will go down as one of the most bizarre selections(or non-selections) in finals footy! Wtf was Scott thinking?? Clearly wasn't. Seems like a think Melbourne would do. Horrible game to watch. Hoping for a rematch of last year's GF.

Norm Smith Medallist

Let's be honest, Jeremy Howe was a good player at Melbourne but he's gone to the next level since moving to Collingwood. He was magnificent last night, especially early on when the game was won.

The whole debate around finals at Kardinia Park annoys me. Geelong earned a home final did they? Yes they did, but only because of that s**t truck of a ground in the first place. I'm sure we'd be hard to beat (even this year) if we got to train all year round on and then play our home games at the similarly crap Casey Fields. But no poor Chris Scott having to play at the home of footy and 90k fans

Reckon it was partially Grundy and also partly about the Pies greater speed around the ground. Not that Menegola's quick... actually, he may well be slower that Stanley. Was definitely a strange call to make so late, though. Pretty disruptive, or if we want to say that it was always planned to try to surprise the Pies, then pretty disrespectful to Stanley.

Tom Hawkins having a 'mare was a bigger factor. The side's main goal threat going hunting for barn doors was a killer. As bad as Geelong were, they had enough opportunities to stay in and ultimately win the game.

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Tom Hawkins having a 'mare was a bigger factor. The side's main goal threat going hunting for barn doors was a killer. As bad as Geelong were, they had enough opportunities to stay in and ultimately win the game.

Yeah, sure was. Funny that last year, they were Hawkins or nothing, while this year they started the season with a much more even spread of goal kickers, aided by Rohan and Dahlhaus, but they've now just gone back to Hawkins or bust.

He'll have an even harder time of it next week against West Coast too.

Brownlow Medallist

The amount of niggle and line-treading on the Bont and Naughton is a bit frustrating to watch. They're getting gut-punched, pulled off the ball, dived into when on the ground, etc etc etc. If one of them belted someone in the second half, I wouldn't have an issue with it. If NicNat is allowed to throw someone into the fence because of a tug of the hair, then the Bont must have racked up a few free murders by now.

Tim Watson is also battling. Hunter has a bloke tackle him with his arm literally around his scone and Tim reckons "bit lucky to get a free kick there".

Also, haven't paid much attention to him before but Bailey Smith gets a fair bit of the pill and then gives it to a teammate in an absolutely shocking position very, very regularly. That type of thing is what's killing the Dogs at the moment. So many sloppy handballs and stitch ups taking place.

Brownlow Medallist

The amount of niggle and line-treading on the Bont and Naughton is a bit frustrating to watch. They're getting gut-punched, pulled off the ball, dived into when on the ground, etc etc etc. If one of them belted someone in the second half, I wouldn't have an issue with it. If NicNat is allowed to throw someone into the fence because of a tug of the hair, then the Bont must have racked up a few free murders by now.

Tim Watson is also battling. Hunter has a bloke tackle him with his arm literally around his scone and Tim reckons "bit lucky to get a free kick there".

Also, haven't paid much attention to him before but Bailey Smith gets a fair bit of the pill and then gives it to a teammate in an absolutely shocking position very, very regularly. That type of thing is what's killing the Dogs at the moment. So many sloppy handballs and stitch ups taking place.